Is ERP dead? Well, not really. At least not in the enterprise HR market. Net yet anyway. cryptic enough?)<\/p>\n
The truth is that there isn’t anyone out there looking to compete with Oracle and SAP over the enterprise HR market for core HR systems. Everyone is building bolt-on type applications, and the truth of the matter is that even Oracle and SAP have long acknowledged the emergence of SOA and SaaS.<\/p>\n
Oracle is a bit behind with the completion of Oracle Fusion middleware recently, but SAP’s netWeaver platform has a healthy and solid spate of partners. In theory, these platforms should allow any partner vendors to integrate processes and data into the ERP suite of applications, extending the reach and robustness of the ERP. Rather than assuming that the ERP can do it all (like we once did), Oracle and SAP are building core applications to house the most critical and core of employee HR data. While they still have the ancilliary modules, they also have the expecation that clients might want a specialized point solution.<\/p>\n
Oracle and SAP’s service oriented architecture (SOA) in Fusion and NetWeaver allow a foundational technology to attach alternative “best in class” solutions. If you talk about Oracle these days, you’re probably talking about Fusion. Similarly with SAP and NetWeaver. By building these technologies, they have surrendered to Software as Service (SaaS) vendors and acknowledged their rightful place in the future enterprise suite of applications.<\/p>\n
So when is the future? It’s actually not anytime soon. There has been significant growth in the SaaS market, but to attach these vendors to SOA takes major technological upgrading. Not only are most vendors not ready, but clients don’t have the stomach to upgrade systems enterprise wide. The last big push in IT spending was around Y2K, and we’re starting to see spending increase again. As companies upgrade their application infrastructure, we’ll see some early adopters, but not a major push to SOA for several years.<\/p>\n
From a strategy implementation perspective, it’s a bit dissappointing to think that true best of breed application integration might be several years away. Today we are able to integrate the employee experience into a single portal, but true workflow and process integration is dependent on platforms like Fusion and NetWeaver. To put it into 3 words, “I can’t wait!” (was that 4 words?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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